RE: Paper gifts and making 7500 HIVE in an hour for FREE

Quite a few friends form Venezuela had been locked out of their accounts and have had to start all over.

It is really common - just glad that this one worked out.

There for to be some additional validation mechanisms that may allow the legitimate owner of an account to have access back.

Yes. I think there could be some alternatives introduced to help with this - but security still has to be maintained.